32Synonyms found for sublime

Word Origin & History

sublime 1586, "expressing lofty ideas in an elevated manner," from M.Fr. sublime, from L. sublimis "uplifted, high, lofty," possibly originally "sloping up to the lintel," from sub "up to" + limen "lintel." The sublime "the sublime part of anything" is from 1679. Sublime Porte, former title of the Ottoman government, is from Fr. la Sublime Porte, lit. "the high gate," a loan-translation of Arabic Bab 'Ali, title of the Ottoman court at Constantinople (cf. mikado).

Example Sentences for sublime

Great tragedies occur here, but there is also an ongoing theatre of the sublime and the ridiculous.

It is much more about our relationship to the bigger sublime picture of things.

It is a work of a sublime imagination, it's football from a team unbothered by the results of any referendum.

It's at exactly this sublime point, though, that he comes undone.

He seemed to believe that music had to be either sublime or ridiculous.

The sublime has been encapsulated in a fixed set of words-and that particular combination is neither negotiable nor mutable.

For the romantics the sublime sea represented freedom from stuffy, money-obsessed convention.

Not to mention the fact that they give us sublime and refined entertainment which foreigners are unable to appreciate.

There is a certain sublime quality to these protests, a feeling of divine purpose.

Whereas perhaps the pragmatists of the right may not feel their ends are sublime enough always to justify the baser means.